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The human digestive system relies on two main kinds of macrophages, a type of specialized white blood cell, to maintain intestinal health. One group, the inflammatory macrophages, attacks harmful microbes, while the other, the non-inflammatory macrophages, repairs tissue and promotes healing. In Crohn’s disease (a chronic form of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD), this balance breaks down. When the inflammatory …

What do you get when you combine a massive, long-necked dinosaur and a road that can’t handle its weight? An accident that makes headlines, and a fossil discovery for the ages. That’s exactly what happened in Patagonia, Argentina, where paleontologists recently unearthed Chucarosaurus diripienda, a gargantuan dinosaur whose fossils were so heavy they cracked the asphalt while being transported. Published …

The Case of the Tiny Tyrannosaurus Might Have Been Cracked  The New York Times Source link

Officials have determined what they believed caused a United Airlines plane’s windshield to crack at 36,000 feet. According to CEO John Dean, California-based company called Windborne Systems began looking into the incident following a report from the National Transportation Safety Board and determined that the Boeing 737 Max very likely ran into one of its weather balloons. The incident, which …

The science of poop has yielded some fascinating results, but the latest installment in this beat may be the most astounding yet. After decades of noticing but generally not understanding why reptiles “pee” crystals, researchers finally believe they have the answer. In a Journal of the American Chemical Society paper published today, a team of organic chemists and herpetologists describes …

A Weather Balloon May Have Cracked a United Plane’s Windshield  The New York Times Mystery object hits United flight at 36,000 feet; Passenger describes terrifying moments  FOX 11 Los Angeles Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing  San Francisco Chronicle Object that hit United flight’s windshield may have been weather balloon, company says  ABC News – Breaking …

Why Broadcom’s OpenAI deal may not be all it’s cracked up to be  MarketWatch Big bank earnings, Broadcom’s OpenAI chip deal, record-high car prices and more in Morning Squawk  CNBC OpenAI Inks Deal With Broadcom to Design Its Own Chips for A.I.  The New York Times Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal  CNN …

Scientists think they’ve finally cracked the mystery of long COVID brain fog  Toronto Star Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog  ScienceDaily Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19  News-Medical PET Imaging Study Links Synaptic Changes to Long COVID Cognitive Impairment  European Medical Journal New research sheds light on why brain fog is a common symptom of …

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26  Hacker News How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface  tidbits.com Users say Liquid Glass breaks menu focus in macOS Tahoe  The Mac Observer Stop Overlapping Text & Legibility Issues on macOS Tahoe with “Reduce Transparency”  OS X Daily How to Reduce Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe  OS X Daily Source link

In what experts are calling a paradigm-shifting landmark study, scientists from The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) report key findings about the underlying mechanisms of immune system stress response to protein misfolding, launching a new approach to cancer immunotherapy treatment targeting the protein production …